This Amazing St. Patrick's Day Cake Will Knock Your Lucky Socks Off

We thought we were clever with our St. Patrick's Day recipes for Leprechaun Bait and a Copycat McDonald's Shamrock Shake, but when it comes to festive food for the Irish holiday, this amazing confection takes the cake. Lyndsey Matthews, Lifestyle Editor for Hearst Digital Media, made this amazing St. Patty's Day layer cake, studded with hearts, stars and horseshoes from one of our favorite childhood sugar cereals, Lucky Charms!

She whipped up a two-layer basic yellow cake from scratch, plus silky Swiss buttercream to frost it, then set to work rifling through the cereal box in search of the colorful marshmallows. "I spent 30 minutes at least digging through the box finding all the marshmallows, and then it took another 30 to apply them to the cake," Matthews says. "It was like Lucky Charms Tetris!"

We're totally stealing her trick for adding texture, too: "I crushed up a bit of the plain oats part of the Lucky Charms and used that in between the layers for some crunch." GENIUS. There's still plenty of time to make your own Lucky Charms cake to devour after your corned beef and cabbage, so get to it!